Questions tagged with 'alright'http://www.grammarly.com/answers/questions/tags/alright2015-03-03T16:38:39Zcorrect spelling of a wordhttp://www.grammarly.com/answers/questions/49684-correct-spelling-of-a-word/
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The dictionary says the word alright is spelled correctly and not as all right. Yet, I see it used with both spellings often in books written by successful authors. Which is correct? </p>
<p><small>asked <a href="/answers/questions/49684-correct-spelling-of-a-word/">Apr 29 &#39;14 at 21:51</a> by <a href="/answers/users/312584/marianne-spitzer" class="profile">Marianne Spitzer</a>, New member</small></p>
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Back when I was in school, and dinosaurs roamed the Earth, &#39;alright&#39; was an unacceptable spelling of &#39;all right&#39;.&nbsp; Now, it is just considered non-standard. English, and most other languages, are constantly changing. I&#39;ve even seen &#39;irregardless&#39; in dictionaries, and this was a capital offense at one time.</p>
<p><small>answered <a href="/answers/questions/49684-correct-spelling-of-a-word/#answer_36008">Apr 30 &#39;14 at 00:30</a> by <a href="/answers/users/132282/lewis-neidhardt" class="profile">Lewis Neidhardt</a>, Grammarly Fellow</small></p>
All right and Alright... Part 2http://www.grammarly.com/answers/questions/42491-all-right-and-alright-part-2/
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This is my second question with Alright and All right.&nbsp; Like a follow-up question.&nbsp; So alright is a word, my boyfriend was happy about winning that argument by the way.&nbsp; But I am not ready to give in..&nbsp; What if you say, I took a test and I got the answers all right.&nbsp; I got the answers alright sounds like a brag statement instead of just saying that you didn&rsquo;t miss any (say it out loud: I got the answers Alright!!) So all right CAN be separated to two words or one word and it means something different together, right?&nbsp; Hope I am right!</p>
<p><small>asked <a href="/answers/questions/42491-all-right-and-alright-part-2/">Aug 30 &#39;13 at 00:13</a> by <a href="/answers/users/226731/lina-newbride" class="profile">Lina Newbride</a>, New member</small></p>
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I don&#39;t need to weigh in here with these two experts lining it out, but I did want to make note that &quot;Alright!&quot; as you used it was an interjection and that &quot;all right&quot; sounds more like an affirmation than an exclamation showing emotion.</p>
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I would also note that a dictionary site</p>
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grammar.yourdictionary.com/parts-of-speech/interjections/list-of-interjections.html</p>
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actually lists &quot;alright&quot;, &quot;alrighty&quot;, and &quot;alrighty-roo&quot; under a rather extensive list of interjections, and that &quot;all right&quot; is completely omitted from this list.</p>
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That being the case, my assumption, without ANY grammatical basis other than my own (excellent) intuition, is to use &quot;alright!&quot; as an interjection.</p>
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(By the way, this agrees with previous poster in regards to formal writing since it is unlikely interjections would be used in formal writing.)</p>
<p><small>answered <a href="/answers/questions/42491-all-right-and-alright-part-2/#answer_29755">Sep 02 &#39;13 at 00:49</a> by <a href="/answers/users/226407/aaron-prejean" class="profile">Aaron Prejean</a>, Expert</small></p>
<p>Here is what Oxford Dictionaries has to say about this question:<br />.</p>
<p>There is no logical reason for insisting that all right should be written as two words rather than as alright, when other single-word forms such as altogether have long been accepted. Nevertheless, alright is still regarded as being unacceptable in formal writing.</p>
<p><small>answered <a href="/answers/questions/42491-all-right-and-alright-part-2/#answer_29643">Aug 30 &#39;13 at 11:45</a> by <a href="/answers/users/24140/patty-t" class="profile">Patty T</a>, Grammarly Fellow</small></p>
Alright OR Allright- I hope that I am right!http://www.grammarly.com/answers/questions/42099-alright-or-allright-i-hope-that-i-am-right/
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Help me settle an argument with my know-it-all boyfriend.&nbsp; He is not really all that good at writing either so I don&rsquo;t trust anything he says but he did go to a year of junior college and that is more than I can say for me!&nbsp; Anyway, I left him a note on the table because he was sick last night and I didn&rsquo;t see him in the morning so I asked, hey do you feel allright this morning? Call me at work if you feel bad and I will bring you some soup and stuff on my lunchbreak.&nbsp; So he, because he loves to be right, says to me, &ldquo;Miss Writer, I feel great now, but you can&rsquo;t spell as good as you thought you could.&rdquo;&nbsp; He says its alright not allright, but you are asking if ALL is well (or right) so you say ALLRIGHT&hellip; AL is not a word by itself except for a name. But he said, it&rsquo;s like always, which I had to give him that but I am hoping that I am still right?&nbsp; I need a really smart, educated one to tell us!</p>
<p><small>asked <a href="/answers/questions/42099-alright-or-allright-i-hope-that-i-am-right/">Aug 25 &#39;13 at 01:31</a> by <a href="/answers/users/226731/lina-newbride" class="profile">Lina Newbride</a>, New member</small></p>